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Central College Iowa environmental studies majors Amy Andrews and Ethan Van Kooten built a tiny house using an existing storehouse as a base, at a cost of just US$489.

NASA's Towed Glider Air-Launch System (TGALS) launches satellites from a twin-fuselage towed glider. Under development by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, it's designed as an economical method for putting spacecraft into low-Earth orbit.

Microsoft did some public experimenting with the Surface lineup (and got off to quite the shaky start), but the company finally struck gold with the Surface Pro 3. Maybe you're hanging onto an older Surface, and wondering if the Pro 3 is worth the upgrade? Let's compare all five models.

Hoping to add back a bit of personal touch to today's cold, impersonal digital communications, New Jersey-based startup Tactonics thinks the world might just get hooked on "tact" messaging.

After announcing that the new Vito van would come in front-, rear- and all-wheel-drive configurations a few months ago, Mercedes is using a cold spell in Europe to get the Vito 4x4, the last of the new Vito models, rolling to market.

MIT acousticians and fluid dynamicists have teamed up with violin makers to meticulously analyze hundreds of instruments from the Cremonese period. The findings not only reveal key design features, but also shed light on whether the development of the instruments was deliberate.

Questions of privacy and how drones can be regulated are pretty well-founded, but are so far yet to be met with any convincing answers. NoFlyZone.org may go some way to providing a solution, allowing users to enter their address to create drone no-fly-zones in the airspace over their homes.

Architects Anna & Eugeni Bach recently completed work on an attractive and energy-efficient home in rural Catalonia, Spain. The MMMMMS House is extended with a flexible uncovered skeletal structure that encourages its owners to spend plenty of time outside.

One factor that snowboarders didn't previously have to consider when choosing bindings was what kind of data they provided. With the introduction of the XON Snow-1, however, that's now a factor. The bindings use an array of sensors to provide riders with all sorts of data on their performance.

Though we've covered lots of Passive Houses, a project in Stuttgart, Germany, claims to be the "first fully functional Active House in the world." Aktivhaus B10 is said to use "active measures" such as self-learning and automation to improve its energy performance.

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine may have provided a new glimmer of hope to sufferers of Huntington's disease by converting human skin cells (which are much more readily available than stem cells) directly into a specific type of brain cell that is damaged by the disease.

Google has released the new look of Gmail to an invite-only group of beta testers. We tried out the new app and web interface for a week and found it to be a long overdue upgrade.